Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.

For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;